The out of the box choice filter web part, for me, left a bit to be desired. I wasn’t crazy about the interface and it just didn’t seem all that clean on a branded site. I found a way to create the same effect using an InfoPath form.

Here’s what you need to do.

Create a new InfoPath 2010 form.

Add in a Combo Box and label it accordingly. In my scenario, I wanted to filter through a list of implementation roll out ...

I have found many, many, MANY! idiosyncrasies with Internet Explorer 64-bit and Sharepoint 2010. Here is one that I had not yet encountered but was easily worked around.

When trying to import a spreadsheet as a list in SharePoint 2010 (Site Actions > View All Site Content > Create > Import Spreadsheet) you will receive the following error in Internet Explorer if you are using the 64-bit version.

This Feature requires Microsoft Internet Explorer version 5.0 or later, and Windows ...

My journey with SharePoint has not been without its stumbling blocks. Whenever I encounter one, I hit Lord Google for the answers. Here are a few of the best resource sites I have found so far. I use most of these resources on a weekly basis.

I’ve started a new method to my fix-it portion of blogs, with a Short Fix / Long Fix method. I’ll give you the quick and dirty steps to fix the problem in the Short Fix section, then if you need or want more detail, the Long Fix gives you all of the background of the problem and other troubleshooting steps that may assist in your fix as well.

Short Fix

Here’s a little background information on the User Information List (UIL). This is a hidden list within SharePoint 2010 that stores information about a user having some metadata. When a new user logs in for the first time, the users information is added to the UIL. I had a problem with this list having outdated information in it which caused me major headaches for a while. Here’s how I came across it.

One morning you wake up to find your email flooded with system and end user messages that your site is down due to an obscure error. You can’t even get to the point of viewing the page to edit and work with the page.

If you find yourself in this situation and you do not want to go to the extent of restoring a page,you can start troubleshooting your web parts by turning them off one ...

I have an old production server that now serves as our Disaster Recovery server. I had been working on revamping our Disaster Recovery Strategy when, while performing a restore from production, it crashed in mid-restore.

I found that our SQL server that houses our Disaster Recovery SharePoint Databases had run out of disk space.

I cleared out a large amount of data from the server and tried the restore function again. The error persisted to come up again. This is when I ...